Haveri, November 6, 2026 (Yes Punjab News)
The national leadership of the Indian Youth Congress has suspended six office-bearers of the Karnataka Pradesh Youth Congress (KPYCC), including Darshan Kumar Lamani, son of Karnataka Minister Rudrappa Lamani, for remaining absent from party programmes held in Delhi.
The suspension order was issued on Friday after the leadership took serious note of their repeated absence from organisational activities, including the Congress protest against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and the ‘Sansad Chalo’ programme. The suspensions will remain in force until further orders.
Those suspended include state secretaries Abdul Aziz, Suraj Avati, Pawan Salian and Abhishek C., along with Haveri District Youth Congress president Darshan Kumar Lamani and Karwar District Youth Congress president Subrahmanya Sirsikar.
The leadership reportedly found that the office-bearers had repeatedly failed to attend party programmes and fulfil their assigned responsibilities. The suspension order was issued by KPYCC president Manjunath H.S., National Secretary and KPYCC co-in-charge Tarika Bhagwana, and Srinivas Rathod. The suspended leaders have been given an opportunity to submit their explanations before the party forum.
Darshan Kumar Lamani was elected Haveri District Congress unit president through an organisational election. In November 2020, he was detained and arrested by the Central Crime Branch (CCB) police in Goa along with two others, Hemanth Kumar and Suneesh, in connection with a synthetic drugs and darknet peddling case.
His father, Rudrappa Manappa Lamani, represents the reserved Haveri Assembly constituency in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly. He was elected unopposed as Deputy Speaker in July 2023 and has held the post since then. He also served as Minister for Textiles and Muzrai in the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government from 2016 to 2018.
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